Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 293 310
Rank change year-on-year +55 +17 -103
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 561 582 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.94% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.08% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 241 290 379
10th Percentile £42,410 £42,608 £43,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,322 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £96,250 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.51% -1.37% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 506 £70,000 +3.70% 775
London +111 274 £80,000 +3.23% 115
UK excluding London +7 239 £62,500 -2.51% 752
Work from Home +21 165 £72,250 +11.15% 316
South East +28 89 £62,500 -3.85% 190
North of England +14 52 £73,750 +13.46% 159
Midlands -17 42 £64,000 -3.40% 143
West Midlands +7 27 £57,468 -11.59% 76
Yorkshire +9 26 £82,500 +26.92% 69
North West +21 25 £67,500 - 73
East of England +36 22 £72,000 -0.69% 112
South West -4 17 £62,500 +16.28% 86
East Midlands -13 13 £80,000 +14.29% 60
Northern Ireland +7 12 £75,000 +26.20% 12
Wales +3 4 £53,750 -16.16% 18
Scotland -8 4 £42,000 -24.95% 40
North East 0 1 - - 17

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.03%) Confluence
2 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.36%) CICS
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.36%) MTS
5 1 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.71%) Trello
6 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
2 11 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.89%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (14.26%) SaaS
2 74 (13.19%) Azure
3 57 (10.16%) AWS
4 38 (6.77%) GCP
5 30 (5.35%) Vertex AI
6 23 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.10%) PaaS
7 17 (3.03%) Azure AI
7 17 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.32%) GitHub
8 13 (2.32%) H2O.ai
8 13 (2.32%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (0.53%) Collibra
12 3 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.53%) Google Analytics
13 2 (0.36%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.43%) Broadband
2 7 (1.25%) 5G
2 7 (1.25%) HTTP
2 7 (1.25%) RTP
3 6 (1.07%) WAN
3 6 (1.07%) Wireless
4 5 (0.89%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.89%) LAN
4 5 (0.89%) PSTN
4 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.36%) ATM
5 2 (0.36%) DNS
5 2 (0.36%) GPRS
5 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.36%) LTE
5 2 (0.36%) Modbus
5 2 (0.36%) Network Security
5 2 (0.36%) SAN
5 2 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.57%) Metadata
2 18 (3.21%) Data Mining
3 16 (2.85%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.67%) Power BI
5 14 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.78%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.07%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.07%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.89%) Tableau
10 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.36%) DB2
12 2 (0.36%) KDB
12 2 (0.36%) Kdb+
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (6.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.71%) ERwin
4 3 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.18%) Bazaar
6 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.18%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.18%) YouTrack
General
1 229 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 200 (35.65%) Finance
3 126 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (21.39%) Marketing
5 69 (12.30%) Law
6 63 (11.23%) Legal
7 48 (8.56%) Retail
8 47 (8.38%) Banking
9 39 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (6.60%) Financial Institution
11 32 (5.70%) Manufacturing
12 27 (4.81%) Electronics
13 25 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (4.46%) Public Sector
14 22 (3.92%) Telecoms
15 19 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (2.85%) Billing
16 16 (2.85%) Digital Economy
17 12 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 154 (27.45%) Product Manager
2 86 (15.33%) Lead
3 78 (13.90%) Senior
4 30 (5.35%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.10%) Product Owner
6 21 (3.74%) Product Management Director
6 21 (3.74%) Senior Product Manager
7 19 (3.39%) Architect
7 19 (3.39%) Security Engineer
8 18 (3.21%) Product Lead
9 16 (2.85%) Developer
9 16 (2.85%) Product Delivery Manager
10 15 (2.67%) Digital Product Manager
11 14 (2.50%) Technical Support
12 13 (2.32%) Change Manager
13 12 (2.14%) Head of Product Management
14 11 (1.96%) Software Engineer
15 10 (1.78%) Python Developer
16 9 (1.60%) E-Commerce Manager
16 9 (1.60%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.57%) REST
2 18 (3.21%) YAML
3 13 (2.32%) Keras
3 13 (2.32%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.32%) TensorFlow
4 11 (1.96%) Flask
5 8 (1.43%) FastAPI
6 7 (1.25%) .NET
7 6 (1.07%) EDI
7 6 (1.07%) Node.js
7 6 (1.07%) React
8 4 (0.71%) JSON
8 4 (0.71%) OAuth
8 4 (0.71%) SAML
8 4 (0.71%) SOAP
8 4 (0.71%) XML
9 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.53%) Spring
9 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.62%) Product Ownership
2 56 (9.98%) Onboarding
3 38 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (5.70%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.21%) AI Agents
6 18 (3.21%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.32%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.32%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.78%) Social Media
10 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.43%) IoT
10 8 (1.43%) Tandem
11 7 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.25%) Windows
2 5 (0.89%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.36%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) AIX
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (48.66%) Roadmaps
2 230 (41.00%) Agile
3 149 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (23.17%) Product Roadmap
5 127 (22.64%) Product Strategy
6 104 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 100 (17.83%) AI
8 96 (17.11%) Analytics
9 91 (16.22%) User Experience
10 89 (15.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 79 (14.08%) Information Security
12 75 (13.37%) B2B
12 75 (13.37%) Computer Science
13 68 (12.12%) Decision-Making
14 66 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
15 65 (11.59%) Machine Learning
15 65 (11.59%) Product Vision
16 64 (11.41%) DevOps
16 64 (11.41%) Value Proposition
17 63 (11.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.49%) SQL
2 39 (6.95%) Python
3 20 (3.57%) Java
4 18 (3.21%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.07%) C#
6 5 (0.89%) Go
7 3 (0.53%) C++
7 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.36%) Bash
8 2 (0.36%) COBOL
8 2 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.36%) JCL
8 2 (0.36%) PHP
8 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.36%) Scala
9 1 (0.18%) Groovy
9 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.18%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 129 (22.99%) Degree
2 58 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (8.91%) Master's Degree
4 32 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.43%) MBA
7 7 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.25%) PMP
8 5 (0.89%) CISSP
8 5 (0.89%) CSPO
9 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.71%) CISM
9 4 (0.71%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) CITP
10 3 (0.53%) HNC
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.06%) QA
2 28 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.10%) NIST
4 20 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.39%) NCSC
6 16 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.89%) IFRS
8 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.89%) PMO
9 4 (0.71%) GDPR
9 4 (0.71%) PSD2
9 4 (0.71%) SEPA
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.53%) SLA
11 2 (0.36%) COREP
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.36%) FINREP
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (2.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.89%) vSphere
3 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.36%) RACF
5 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (2.32%) Kubernetes
1 13 (2.32%) Terraform
2 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.53%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (0.36%) WSUS
5 1 (0.18%) Argo
5 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) Puppet
5 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 77 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.09%) Google
3 23 (4.10%) Foundry
4 21 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.57%) Databricks
6 15 (2.67%) Dell
6 15 (2.67%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.67%) SAP
7 13 (2.32%) NVIDIA
8 6 (1.07%) Zoho
9 5 (0.89%) Manugistics
9 5 (0.89%) Oracle
9 5 (0.89%) VMware
10 4 (0.71%) Adobe
10 4 (0.71%) Apple
10 4 (0.71%) Sage
11 3 (0.53%) Cisco
11 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.53%) Tenable
11 3 (0.53%) YouTube